Saturday, January 28, 2017

grammatical number - "What {is/are} the meaning and connotations of this phrase?" Which is correct here, "is" or "are"?

Consider the question:





What is/are the meaning and connotations of this phrase?







Clearly you would say:





What is the meaning of this phrase?



What are connotations of this phrase?




and obviously you could just restructure the sentence to avoid the ambiguity:




What is the meaning of this phrase, and what are it's connotations?





But supposing you want to use the original phrase, which form of the verb is correct? Is there a correct form?

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